On Sep 19, 2011 10:05 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:54:52 +0700 > Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > LVM does do striping according to the man page. I've never tried it, > > > mostly because LVM is the wrong place to do that IMHO. > > > > > > Use RAID for that instead and leave LVM to do what it's good at - > > > managing storage volumes > > > > > > > Ah, thanks for the correction. Anyways, I agree with your last > > sentence. > > > > Soft-RAID is always a catastrophe waiting to happen. > > > > My experience has always been that Linux software raid gets the job > done perfectly, every time, no issues and has never failed me. > > Hardware RAID is another story, especially those cheap nasty > onboard pseudo-RAID thingies. DOubly so if the name Adaptec appears > anywhere. >
Ah yes. If we're talking about entry-level RAID, then I agree; Linux's RAID is head and shoulders above cheapo Adaptec pseudo-RAID. But in an Enterprise setting, I trust the server box's battery-backed RAID controller better than any software solution. At least, in the latter case we have a 3rd party to sue ;-) Rgds,
